THE N W YORKER Balkan and Middle-Euro- pean states to bring the total to around twen tv The 2"randeur of the L North Star was ever im- pressive to the Europeans, and sometimes it was baf- fling. It would glide into a harbor where was an- chored, say, the yacht of the King of Italy. l--he private ship would gl ve a twent } T-one-O.un salute. /::: The royal yacht would reply with two or three shots, whatever was con- sidered proper courtesy for a commoner in this regard. <...; If the King and Queen's Inen couldn't place the distinguished visiting craft offhand tfley had to think quick. l--hey usually con<;idered it prudent to give the North Star as 111any guns as they in propriety could, and still not be silly. l--he Kaiser replied to the North Star's twenty-one guns with a salute of fi ve. T'his was leaning over backward for h:m. It is said to be the handsomest amenity he ever extended an unofficial personage, and the only time he ever saluted one with cannon. One shot always led to another and these led to visits, and a nUlnbcr of monarchs trod the deck of the North Star, \vhich always did things up right as to martial ceremony. \'Then one of the Vanderbilt children left the yacht, for instance, a fife and drluTI played their special "call," as high of- ficers of the navy have their "music" when they 2"0 ashore or come aboard. w <...; Once when Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., then a small lad, was taken sick with pneumonia, the Kaiser sent his per- sonal physician aboard the North Star and the Vanderbilts credit hiITI with saving the boy's life. ..-,-: ... .,..",.. Rude T AST sumlner, when hay was ripen- Ling in the fields of East Hampton, Long Island, an artist stopped his car in the farmyard of one of the vIllagers. He got out. His chauffeur got out. C\Ve're relating this as it was told us by a lady who knows the farmer.) They unloaded an easel and things. The artist sat down in the dooryard and began to paint. It's important, probably, to know that the artist was Childe Hassam, no less. It's also im portan t to kno\\T that the farmer, although used to having artists hanging around his p:cturesque , ...' [ ,. ( ;- " ! I l ; , ., r " /)T I ul ---- ((I u'ant to b1-tY t 17 - C; (G rC) (Yl \ 2:L:t)/)=t . / ot- r,-:; , I _ ---- ......... I / I I I -- V " :/ IÍltJOt- URL I' \ a new Tefrig:erator-how 1'Jt1-tch 'Lf..,'zll you allow JJ/e on 171/)' old car?') . hOlne, was a stern old patriot, a hardy man, fully aware that his h0111e was his castle. He was a direct descendant of ï fellow who once n1adc a special trip to the Court of St. J alnes' to pro- test the whale-oil tax-that kind of rugged stock. \\Thile Childe Hassa111 painted, the farlner hitched a teal11. The kitchen door, with its trailing wistaria vine, stood wide open, giving a glimpse of the table all set for noon dinner-the ancient fireplace, the fine old highboy. It was a lovely scene, perfect. \Vhen the team was hitched, the farlner went toward the door, started to close it. "Don't close that door!" . roared the artist. l"he farmer looked around, quietlr. "Guess I will shut my door," he replied. And he did. Childe Hassam now has a very In- teresting but unfinished sketch of a farl11house, showing an open door. Th e farlner-and the farn1er's dog-never let hinl come back to c0111plete it. Lost Star AND now we learn that, back in n the days when he was just an l'yeryday aviator with an idea of a transatlantic flight but vaguely in mind, Colonel Lindbergh escaped only by a narrow chance the kind of comlnercial- ization he now spends lnuch time avoid- Ing. It appears that In his later stunt- . flying days he was approached by the Pathé Inotion-picture people, who offered hin1 a p lrt in a picture they \vere planning, a feature based on ad- ventures in the air service. l--he flier considered this seriously and finally offered his services on the basis that the con1pany would pay hinl a salary, give hilll an advance of fi ve thousand dol- lars, and not require hin1 to do any kissing or love-making. The fi ve- thousand-dollar ad vance blocked nego- tiations. Lindbergh would not yield on this and the Pathé people decided not to pay it. Half a year later, and for sub- equent lnonths and months thereafter, they say, Pathé executives could be seen from time to tilne, sitting in dark corners, chewing at pencil stubs, and disconsolately calculating just what profi ts might have been. . T HE LIQUOR :\;1ARKET: Prices fir111 after Jones Law scare but supply good and downward market expected. Gins, domestic $30 @ $35 ; i111ported $65 @ $ 70. Large offerings of Gilbey's. Booth's House of Lords scarce, sold as high as $100. \Vhis- keys, Peter Dawson, and Teacher's Highland CreaITI, ÎInported $ 75 @ $80. Best available last week, Vat 69, low $ 90, high $110. Cut, domestic label, $50 @ $55. Liqueurs well supported at $ 90. ',Vines weak. - TI-IE l"\E\V YORKERS